Arawan languages
Arawan is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil and Peru.
Language contact
Jolkesky notes that there are lexical similarities with the Chapakura-Wañam, Jivaro, Kwaza, Maku, Mura-Matanawi, Taruma, Yanomami, Arawak, Nadahup, Puinave-Kak, and Tupi language families due to contact.Family division
Arauan consists of half a dozen languages:Internal classification by Jolkesky :
- Arawa
- *Suruwaha
- *Madi-Deni-Paumari
- **Paumari
- **Deni, Kulina
- **Madi-Arawa
- ***Arawa
- ***Madi
- ****Banawa
- ****Jamamadi
- ****''Jarawara''
Dienst (2010)
- Arawan
- *Arawa
- *Paumari
- *Suruwahá
- *Madi-Madihá
- **Madi
- ***Eastern Jamamadi
- ***Banawá
- ***Jarawara
- **Madihá
- ***Kulina
- ***Western Jamamadi
- ***''Deni''
Mason (1950)
- Arauá
- *Arauá
- *Culino
- **Culina
- **Curia
- **Curiana
- **Culiña
- *Pama
- **Pama
- **Pamana
- *Yamamadí
- **Yamamadí: Capaná, Capinamari, Colo
- **Purupurú: Paumarí
- **Yuberi
- *Madihá
- *Sewacu
- *Sipó
Other varieties
- Himarimã - presumed language spoken by the Himarimã people along the Piranha River between the Juruá River and Purus River. Per Suruwahá and Banawá testimonies, as well as a lost wordlist, it is believed to be Arawan.
Loukotka (1968)
- Purupurú - extinct language spoken in the same region on the lower course of the Purus River.
- Uainamari / Wainamarí - extinct language spoken on the Inauini River, a tributary of the upper Purus River.
- Uatanari / Watanarí - once spoken on the Ituxi River and Sepatini River in the same region; now perhaps extinct.
- Sewacu - once spoken on the Pauini River, now on the left bank of the Purus River on the opposite side of the mouth of the Sepatini River.
- Pamana - once spoken on the Ituxi River and Mucuim River near Lake Agaam, the same region; now probably extinct.
- Amamati - extinct language once spoken on the Mucuim River north of the Pamana tribe.
- Yuberí / Xubiri - once spoken on the middle course of the Purus River on the opposite side of the mouth of the Mamoriá River and around Lake Abunini, now on the lower course of the Tapauá River, the same region. A wordlist labeled with this language's name, "recorded" by Johann Natterer, is blank.
- Sipó / Cipo - extinct language once spoken north of the Yuberi tribe on the Tapaua River.
- Curina / Kurina / Kólö - language spoken in two regions; first, on the right bank of the Juruá River, along the Marari River and on the upper course of the Tapauá River; second, on the Eiru River and Gregório River and on the left bank of the Muru River, territory of Acre, Brazil.
- Madiha - spoken on the Eiru River near Bom Jardim, Amazonas.
- Catiana - extinct language once spoken on the Iaco River, Acre.
Vocabulary